Domestic spying is longstanding. It's for control. To know what everyone is doing all the time.

It has nothing to do with protecting national security. It's institutionalized. It's unconstitutional. It doesn't matter. Nothing is done to stop it.

Abroad it's for economic advantage. To be one up on foreign competitors. For information used advantageously in trade, political, and military relations.

Obama wants truth and full disclosure suppressed. He wants whistleblowers silenced. He targeted more than all his predecessors combined.

Rogue states operate this way. None in world history match America's ruthlessness. More egregiously than its most merciless tyrants.

None more threaten humanity's survival. Stopping its rampaging matters most. Doing it before it's too late to matter.

Michael Parenti calls US governance "democracy for the few." In his book by that title. It explains the "shadier sides of US political life."

"Proponents of the existing social order have tried to transform practically every deficiency in the US political system into a strength."

They ludicrously claim "millions of nonvoters are content with present social conditions, (and) the growing concentration of executive power is a good thing because the president is democratically responsive to broad national interests."

They say "exclusion of third parties" enhances America's democratic process. Makes it work better. Turns vices into virtues.

Popularly spread political rubbish turns truth on its head. It's polar opposite what state-sponsored propaganda wants people to believe.

America the beautiful exists for its privileged alone. It's always been this way. More than ever now.